Twyla Tharp Never Stops | The New Yorker

The seventy-nine-year-old choreographer discusses her dogged work ethic, not falling in love with Baryshnikov, and what’s lost and gained by making art as you age.

Save this story Save this story The PBS series “American Masters” specializes in packaging the lives of cultural luminaries into an hour or two of entertainment. For its latest subject, the dance-world legend Twyla Tharp , that doesn’t feel like nearly enough. Tharp has lived and worked (compulsively, ceaselessly) in New York City since the early nineteen-sixties. She has choreographed more than a hundred and thirty-five works; overseen the dancing in five films, including “Hair” and “Amadeus”; and won an Emmy Award, in 1985, for her work with Mikhail Baryshnikov, and a Tony, in 2003, for her

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